A second status hearing was set Thursday for one of the suspects charged with the murder of Samuel Tiller. ...more

October 17, 2008 |

Betty Walker was frying chicken when the gun went off outside. Boom. ...more

October 12, 2008 |

An unoccupied mobile home was destroyed in a Friday evening blaze and investigators are checking to see if arson caused the fire. ...more

September 7, 2008 |

SEBRING An unoccupied mobile home was destroyed in a Friday evening blaze and investigators are investigating to see if arson caused the fire. No one was injured in the fire. The trailer home, located at 3572 Green Acre Way, was "totally involved" when firefighters arrived on scene, according to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. A former tenant of the destroyed mobile home, Dennis Ferrell, was on scene of the fire, according to the sheriff's department. Ferrell was evicted from the home about a week ago. State fire officials have been called in to investigate the fire. ...more

September 6, 2008 |

An accidental fire at 125 N. Florida Ave. displaced an Avon Park woman and her 12-year-old son Tuesday morning. Their two-bedroom trailer in the Southland Court trailer park was a total loss. ...more

September 2, 2008 |

An accidental fire at 125 N. Florida Ave. displaced an Avon Park woman and her 12-year-old son Tuesday morning. Their two-bedroom trailer in the Southland Court trailer park was a total loss. ...more

September 2, 2008 |

A woman was found dead in the bedroom of a trailer home that was destroyed by a fast-moving fire Thursday afternoon. ...more

June 13, 2008 |

A woman was found dead in the bedroom of a trailer home that was destroyed by a fast-moving fire Thursday afternoon. ...more

June 12, 2008 |

AVON PARK — A suspect in the 2001 stabbing murder of a Lake Placid man remained in Highlands County Jail without bond Monday after he was extradited from Madison County. Juan Tirso Perez, now 26, also known as Juan Tirso Marin and Juan Tirso Marin-Perez, was booked in at 9 p.m. Friday on a charge of second-degree murder as a suspect in the stabbing death of Sergio Jose Morales, according to sheriff's central records. According to the arrest narrative, it was about 12:30 a.m. Feb. 19, 2001, when Morales was stabbed to death in his trailer home at 303 Highlands Blvd., in Lake Placid. ...more

June 2, 2008 |

Debbie Kelley woke up Wednesday morning to the shrieks of a desperate woman. ...more

November 29, 2007 |